When it comes to drugs, Austrians are increasingly turning to cannabis and buying from ‘home growers’ based in Austria, according to a leading public prosecutor in Wiener Neustadt.
An Austrian politician from the Inn Pirate Party, who spent six months in prison for drugs offences, will be allowed to serve the rest of his 18 month sentence under house arrest with an ankle monitor - and can attend local government meetings in Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol.
Austrian cannabis activists are holding a ‘social march’ in Vienna on Saturday 19th September to protest against the planned reform of drug laws which will still criminalize patients who use cannabis to treat pain and symptoms of disease.
Police and firefighters were called out to a routine water leak in a residential building in Schönbrunnerstraße, Vienna, on Sunday night and got more than they bargained for when they discovered a giant cannabis farm.
An Innsbruck local councillor from the Austrian Pirate Party is being investigated on suspicion of drug trafficking after police raided his apartment and found 2.7 kg of cannabis stored in a safe.
Police from the Salzburg district police command of Zell am See announced on Wednesday the arrests of three men who appeared to be running a professional cannabis growing operation in Maria Alm.
The post has something for everybody, according to an Austrian Post slogan, but one pensioner received slightly more than she bargained for when she discovered she’d been sent a package of hashish from Holland.
The organizers of the Legalize Austria association - which campaigns for the legalization of cannabis - is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial plant and the "technical and factual" issues regarding its legalization.
A 29-year-old man is under arrest today after police raided his Salzburg apartment, and found 14 cannabis plants under cultivation, as well as a small amount resting on a coffee table.
Austria's Green party's youth wing has launched an initiative to drum up support for legalization of cannabis, by commencing a tour around the country promoting the benefits of smoking or otherwise ingesting the currently-banned natural substance.
The non-profit association 'Legalize! Austria' has introduced a parliamentary citizen's initiative on Wednesday, to remove cannabis from being banned within the scope of the Austrian Narcotics act.
Burgenland narcotics investigators arrested three men on Thursday in Vienna and Mistelbach in Lower Austria that are believed to have grown and sold cannabis in the past eight months worth €170,000.
A man was spotted on Vienna's U3 metro underground line traveling with a shopping trolley that contains what looks suspiciously like a small cannabis plant on the weekend.
Georg Huß, a 42-year-old man sentenced to four years in prison for possession of only 750 grammes (26 ounces) of cannabis, has been on a hunger strike since June 23rd in protest against the severity of his punishment.
Police in the west Carinthian town of Spittal an der Drau have discovered a small plantation of cannabis plants in a house, according to the RegioNews Network.
Austrian justice minister Wolfgang Brandstetter has spoken out against proposals by Tyrol's social democrats to legalize cannabis, saying that the majority of Austrians are opposed.
A conference of the Austrian Social Democrats (SPÖ) in Tyrol over the weekend called for the establishment of a working group to investigate the legalization of cannabis in the region.
